August 2013

The 2013
Virginia Software Summit will take place on August 5, 2013 at James Madison
University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The program is tentatively scheduled
to run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information, including registration,
will be available soon. In the meantime, please save the date.

About the
Summit: The Virginia Software Summit brings together higher ed and our software
vendor partners to discuss innovative, improved and more cost effective ways to
provision software for faculty, researchers, staff and students. From
licensing negotiation to tracking and reporting software use, managing software
is complex. The emergence of cloud computing and continued economic pressure
adds complexity to an already challenging software management environment for
platform vendors, application vendors and higher education software consumers.

The theme of this year's
camp, for rising third to rising eighth graders, is "Words In
Motion." The goal of the poetry camp is to inspire children to explore all
the ways they can be creative with words.

The cost of the camp is $75 for the
week and includes lunch and a snack each day. Scholarships are available.

Children will develop an understanding of the
importance of nature from children’s literature selections. Bring a picnic
blanket or lawn chairs and a brown-bag picnic lunch for after storytime. For more information, check http://www.jmu.edu/arboretum.